[67715] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Analogies=dead threads (was RE:Open, anonymous services and dealing with abuse)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Kumari)
Tue Feb 17 21:11:17 2004
In-Reply-To: <200402172105.i1HL5s6q014337@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:10:41 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Feb 17, 2004, at 4:05 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:38:12 GMT, Rainer Atkins
> <raineratkins@hotmail.com> said:
>>
>> Is it just me, or is it a clear indication that a thread is ending its
>> useful life is when people start debating the merits of the analogies
>> that
>> have been posed rather than the original subject matter of the thread?
>>
>> Or, maybe a thread is exhausted when the analogies start to crop up.
>
> No, it's not dead until some jackboot shows up and invokes Godwin. ;)
So, I have always wondered:
Can you invoke Godwin for every post on alt.politics.socialist.nazi? :-)
Warren.
--
The plural of anecdote is not evidence.
-- Bill Lockyer, California Attorney General
